| Author | Igor Frenkel,James Lepowsky,Arne Meurman |
| Format | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780122670657 |
| Publisher | Academic Press |
| Manufacturer | Academic Press |
This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory.
The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."
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